Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shakes hands with U.S President Donald Trump at the White House on May 16. Kevin Lamarque / Reuters file

More than half of the journalists listed are jailed in just three countries: Turkey, China and Egypt. Turkey accounts for 73 of them, or more than a quarter of all of the world’s imprisoned journalists, according to CPJ.

CPJ specifically blamed what it called U.S. President Donald Trump’s “nationalistic rhetoric, fixation on Islamic extremism and insistence on labeling critical media ‘fake news'” for reinforcing crackdowns on the news media by